Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has been art's course in the decade since World War II? Future historians may be able to chart it neatly. Contemporaries cannot, for most art of any age is chaff which only the winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...
...amendment was adopted, the nation had a policy of flexibility, and President Eisenhower had harvested a bumper legislative crop. With the farm-bloc diehards thus shaken, George Aiken moved in to score a clean sweep on other provisions of the bill. In fast succession, the Senate beat away the chaff of demands for 1) increasing price supports on soybeans and feed grains (oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums), 2) imposing cattle supports at a rigid 80% of parity, and 3) pegging dairy supports at 80% instead of the 75% set by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson...
...sensitive as "newshen" Jane [TIME, Grant Letters, about Dec. 21]? Newshen is one of the cleverest coined words. Short, flattering. To adults it connotes a plump, toothsome chick (no newspaperwoman I ever saw) in fine, glossy feathers (ditto). Stepping high and daintily, she delicately picks the wheat from the chaff...
...read the faintest marks and signs of caste as ably as a jungle tracker can read a spoor. But Sylvia, secure in the shelter of her father's wing, enjoys sticking her neck out. It is tedious always to be "Russell's daughter"-to swap sophisticated chaff with Daddy and his "high-color" business friends, to go to the Town Hall with "people of good family, olive-complexioned, with Good Hair." So Sylvia frequents the frame house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created a Guiana version of Greenwich Village...
...Council is depending on its second question, asking for the methods used by accused professors, to separate the sincere answers from the groundless chaff. But since poll replies are anonymous, there is no chance for a further questioning. Any accusations made against a professor by nameless students can be denied but not debated...